All Films

Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)

1976 • 3 min

First of three versions of Transformation by Holding Time, films with the duration of one film reel in which the screen is gradually filled with Polaroids, made in one shot from one angle, without editing. In this version, the film camera registers the filmmaker who is on a moor taking Polaroid pictures of the film camera.

Erogeny

1976 • 6 min • United Kingdom

The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.

Woman of a Thousand Fires

1976 • 15 min • Mexico, United States of America

An expressionistic, surrealistic portrait of a Latin American woman.

O Candinho

1976 • 33 min • Brazil

Ten Drawings

1976 • 22 min

A collection of ten short films. For each film, 50 x 18" strips of clear film were laid side by side to make a rectangle 18' x 36'. A geometric shape was drawn on each rectangle, and the strips of celluloid were joined to make a film. The sound is created by the image carried over into the optical sound track.

The Case Is Assigned To Detective Teddy. Case #001: The Brown And The White

1976 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two bear cubs have disappeared in the city. Detective Teddy is entrusted with the case of their search.

Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness

1976 • 8 min

The optical manipulation of tone, shape, line and movement creates a purely cinematic choreography.

Revolution

1976 • 12 min • Portugal

Filmed on the streets of Lisbon, after the 25th of April, with a Super 8 camera, it documents the political propaganda posters, graffiti and murals of revolutionary ideology inscribed on the city's walls.

Geflecht

1976 • 16 min

A film by Werner Nekes.

Going to Work

1976 • 7 min • United States of America

Daily morning trudge and trolley through snow and ice; pigeons, other winter beauties.

Libertários

1976 • 29 min • Brazil

A documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th century until 1922.

About the Gnome Which Left the Home

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The story about the gnome and his anthropomorphic house which is afraid of the dark.

In contextus

1976 • 28 min • France

Around three boys accomplices to playful and shy grace, Stéphane Marti inaugurates his cinematographic writing.

Rabade Vaikuses

1976 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Estonian primitive and untouched bogs and folk songs. Composer Lepo Sumera, singer Anne Maasik.

Nutrition: The All-American Meal

1976 • 11 min • United States of America

The increasing reliance of 1970's America on fast food meals is examined, and ways to improve on this diet are suggested.

Highs

1976 • 17 min • United States of America

Mid-period Brakahge short. "Haiku cartoons."

Journey

1976 • 6 min

Images of the filmmaker on a train are intercut with shots of an ice cream parlour, shops, a woman glancing at herself of the mirror, etc suggesting the filmmaker’s reverie as she looks out of the train window.

Handcrank Clock

1976 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Four Sided Tape

1976 • 3 min

Here, Peter Campus explores video, not as a demonstration of special effects, but as a way of placing his own body in the presence of an immediate double.

Courtesy: A Good Eggsample

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

An animated film which uses eggs to show the role and importance of courtesy at school.

Piano Film

1976 • 4 min

A derelict piano in the yard outside the old Film Co-Op. The keys had come loose and floated off. I play it, moving the keys and listening carefully.' - AN.

Ain't We Having Fun?

1976 • 4 min

Short comedy by Chuck Statler.

La Valse Waltz

1976 • 14 min

The whirl of the dance is like a reincarnation. From time to time, the dancer sits down to drink tea. But when the music starts, the waltz recalls.

The Body Sculpters

1976 • 54 min • Canada

This documentary was made at the request of Vidéographe on the occasion of the Montreal Olympic Games and as part of the series Sports à part. A broad perspective on the world of bodybuilding, it calls on cultural analysts and trainers as well as a few of those vying for the title of Mr. Montreal to give the viewer insight into the mindset and motivations of the bodybuilder.